Key: E major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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If I had a
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reason I'd tell you what it is
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Must I explain how I feel
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I've tried and I've tried
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to make it so clear
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But my time is just wasted I fear
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Well it's only an old song but it
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serves it's purpose so well
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By the cry in your voice
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I can tell
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When you sing there's a feeling
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behind the words
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That brings it all back again
Verse 2
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I'm reaching, I'm reaching,
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while you slip away
I'm searching for words I can say
I'm listening, I'm listening,
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tryin' not to hear
You say that we might meet
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some day
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Verse 3
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There's a picture that's faded
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and curling from it's frame
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Of a face that smiles pa tiently
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It might smile forever to
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make me feel better
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But I just might wait to see
Interlude 1
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Verse 4
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Oh I'm reaching,
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I'm reaching while you slip away
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I'm searching for words I can't say
I'm listening,
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I'm listening tryin' not to hear
You say that we might meet
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some day
Verse 5
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There's answers to questions
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that we both wanna know
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But those answers keep evad
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ing me
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There's rhymes and there's reasons,
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there's rights and there's wrongs
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For being what you are to me
Verse 6
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If I had a a reason I'd
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tell you what it is
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Would you do the same
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thing for me?
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"Cause the minute you go
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there's one thing I know
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That the day will mean nothing for me
Outro 1
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